Siegbert Salomon Prawer

Siegbert Salomon Prawer (born 15 February 1925 in Cologne, Germany and educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry and Jesus College, Cambridge) is Taylor Emeritus Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. He was Lecturer at the University of Birmingham from 1948 to 1963, Professor of German at Westfield College London from 1964, and became Taylor Professor in 1969. He is a Honorary Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.

His sister is the writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

He has written on German poetry and lieder, comparative literature, and film.

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